Paris (AFP)

The mandate of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil arouses "indignation, rage and hate" at Flavia Coelho, singer who responds with "DNA", album racing where urban and Caribbean music collide.

The "dance-cure, it is completely Latin American, third-worldist", exposes to AFP this Brazilian installed in Paris. "If we do not have the soccer ball or the music to laugh, what do we do? In Brazil, it's in our DNA, all that's inside us", she continues, referring to the title of the album "DNA" ("DNA" in Portuguese), released October 18.

"Cidade Perdida" ("Lost City"), the flagship song of her fourth album, is an anti-corruption fire where she releases her flow in Portuguese, addressing both the head and the legs.

"In Brazil, they divert money from canteens, schools, school supplies, and I myself have been in school for a long time only to eat because there was nothing to eat at home. the school does not follow, the trafficker comes to us, "she says in impeccable French, brightened by her carioca accent.

- "This superhero in us" -

"In Brazil, it is difficult to go to school, I started working at 14, but other children from 5, 6 or 7 years old are in the factories, the fields".

The album is not centered on Brazil. "Levanta Dai" ("Raise You") refers to Venezuela by ricochet. "With the crisis in this country, many Venezuelans crossed the border, but I was surprised, they were very badly received in the north of Brazil," she laments.

In full realization of his album, Jair Bolsonaro was thus elected. "This gentleman, whose name I do not pronounce, has less than 100 words of vocabulary," she pleads.

She is "ashamed" for the rude remarks recently made by the Brazilian leader to Brigitte Macron. "But it's so him, he also said that NGOs set fire to the Amazon ..."

Not to depress, she invented an imaginary savior "Billy Django" title of the second piece. "We must awaken this superhero in us, the revolution must start from the inside of each, despite our misfortunes, our pain."

Django, like Quentin Tarantino's? "Yes, a little," she smiled, "it's the slave who revolts, takes over, defends his family, but my Billy Django does not kill anyone, even though I've already been confronted with violence, as we all in Brazil, but he does not let himself go. "

- "Free time" -

The stigmatization of sexual minorities is also denounced in "DNA". As in "Nosso Amor" ("Our Love"). "In Africa, we put gay and LGBT photos on the front page of the newspapers! And in Brazil, people from my family have been hiding for a long time, they have taken out their heads a little but can not do it anymore."

But not everything is dark. "Menino Menina" ("Boy Girl") sings an evening where genres matter little, without judgment, "it was free neighborhood, + you do what you want +". "It was very good for me to see my little sister, who is lesbian, being so free, so spontaneous".

"No Baile" ("Bal") celebrates those family leaders who, after having toiled a lifetime, offer themselves a second youth. "It's a song about my dad and other dads, and when I left home, I found out that my dad liked to go out and have fun."

"Today, when one is 40-50 years old, 60, 70 years old, that does not mean anymore + an old + 40 years, it happens for me next year, and I'm not old", burst-t she laugh. "We are rejuvenated, we are no longer in a society where the father or the mother are working and that's all, it's not like that at all".

"The important thing is to continue to live," she concludes. "DNA" is designed as the soundtrack of this mantra.

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